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Stifle Tower said:
No, I'm a realist. I'm trying to present a logical expectation not colored by "homer" glasses. If that is pessimistic, then call me a pessimist. If I were projecting the win totals for GS or SA or Boston, for example, I'd be called an optimist.

Jazz are 26-26 right now. That's .500. And please don't bring up last year's post all-star percentage. That was a different team with different players, especially at PG. ALL teams deal with injuries. To expect Utah not to have any more the rest of the way is probably unrealistic.

Utah is still a team that struggles on offense and has the WORST ATO ratio in the league (tied with Phoenix and Philadelphia). They had a nice home winning streak against primarily sub-.500 teams, picked up a nice road win and then lost to a lottery team, demonstrating that they are also far from having a "shut-down" defense that can close out games.

Thirty games left: 14 Home and 16 away. They've been horrible on the road, so disadvantage #1 right there.
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You're far from a "realist". Pessimist and overreactor, through and through. Just take a deep breath.
 
Stoked said:
In only looking at one side of the coin yes. He does a good job of listing real challenges the Jazz face.
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And to be fair to dalamon, stoked and others, I do have a tendency to be critical and play "devil's advocate." I often predict on the lower side of the spectrum, although I think this season I may have predicted 44, even with the loss of Exum. I'd have to go back and look. When someone is not all rosy on a FAN board, then, yes, it comes off as pessimism to those who are, well, fans/fanatical about their team.

BTW, I'm liking all the trade rumors I hear. Even if NOTHING transpires, it tells me that the conservative FO has at LEAST tried to make a sensible deal.
 
In Stifle's defence, he is probably one of the staunchest most passionate Jazz fan I've met on Jazzfanz (no punn intended). At times he may come off as a bit pessimistic but he is probably more critical than others because he love the Jazz so much, the same way a parent is strict with their children because they love them so much.
 
ONE LOVE said:
In Stifle's defence, he is probably one of the staunchest most passionate Jazz fan I've met on Jazzfanz (no punn intended). At times he may come off as a bit pessimistic but he is probably more critical than others because he love the Jazz so much, the same way a parent is strict with their children because they love them so much.
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Well, no pun was made, so you're safe.
 
Siro said:
That's not a pun buddy. It's just using the same phrase twice. For it to be a pun, it would have to have a second meaning.
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Doesn't one thing mean a group of people (jazz fans) and the other is a message board (jazzfanz)?

2 different meanings?
 
fishonjazz said:
Doesn't one thing mean a group of people (jazz fans) and the other is a message board (jazzfanz)?

2 different meanings?
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You can make that argument, but it's such a stretch. Jazzfanz means jazz fans. Had he made a reference to fans that move the air around, it would be a pun.
 
ONE LOVE said:
In Stifle's defence, he is probably one of the staunchest most passionate Jazz fan I've met on Jazzfanz (no punn intended). At times he may come off as a bit pessimistic but he is probably more critical than others because he love the Jazz so much, the same way a parent is strict with their children because they love them so much.
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Thanks. Now I'm off to yell at and spank my child. Don't know what she's done wrong today, but I'll find something!
















Edit: I'm just kidding about my child. In 10 years I've never used any form of physical discipline against her. Now, my wife, on the other hand..........






Edit: Just kidding about that too. Unless she wants it, and that falls under a completely different category with 50 shades to it.
 
Definition

A pun is a play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words. Known in rhetoric as paronomasia.

Puns are figures of speech based on the inherent ambiguities of language. Although puns are commonly regarded as a childish form of humor, they are often found in advertisements and newspaper headlines. Poet Louis Untermeyer said that punning is like poetry: "something every person belittles and every person attempts."

So to defend One Love, saying I'm one of the most passionate Jazz fans he's met is definitely a pun, or play on words, of Jazzfanz, this site. And I should know, one of my former colleagues nicknamed me "master of the obvious joke" since I was always looking to make a good pun.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Definition

A pun is a play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words. Known in rhetoric as paronomasia.

Puns are figures of speech based on the inherent ambiguities of language. Although puns are commonly regarded as a childish form of humor, they are often found in advertisements and newspaper headlines. Poet Louis Untermeyer said that punning is like poetry: "something every person belittles and every person attempts."

So to defend One Love, saying I'm one of the most passionate Jazz fans he's met is definitely a pun, or play on words, of Jazzfanz, this site. And I should know, one of my former colleagues nicknamed me "master of the obvious joke" since I was always looking to make a good pun.
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In English, please.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Thanks. Now I'm off to yell at and spank my child. Don't know what she's done wrong today, but I'll find something!














Edit: I'm just kidding about my child. In 10 years I've never used any form of physical discipline against her. Now, my wife, on the other hand..........






Edit: Just kidding about that too. Unless she wants it, and that falls under a completely different category with 50 shades to it.
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As far as I know, most women like to get spanked in the pillow meat. The ones who act like they don't are usually the ones that are control freak. Hell I'm sure most men like it too but I wouldn't have any idea about it besides myself now, would I?
 
Pillow meat.



Should be someone's user name
 
Updated the OP for the stretch run!!! Jazz have 30 games to play!!!! We are going to start with a very winnable back to back. Tomorrow @ Wizards then Thursday v. Celtics. Jazz are currently ranked 10th in the power rankings. Rockets, Mavs and Grizzlies are on the slide. 5th Seed Bandwagon Express coming thru!! CHOO CHOO!!!!

Tomorrow's games:

Jazz @ Wizards (CHOO CHOO!!)
Spurs @ Clippers

Jazz win and Clippers loss puts us only 7 1/2 games out of 4th! Hahaha
 
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